Agreed, because for most practical purposes there are only two valid distros in the first place (apt-based and pacman-based)

Possibly.

It depends on how many people are fixing bugs and pentesting.

If it’s a lot of people, there won’t be much difference. It could be even better if enough free/non-corporate people can help find and fix.

For things that don’t get lots of bug hunters and fixers, this could become a real problem. Hopefully not much critical software is in this boat.

Money conquers all.

Overall a good idea. Yeah, there are potential legal issues that could potentially come up if court cases go against the AI gen companies, but that’s the bridge that will get crossed if (not necessarily when) it comes to it.

One thing I don’t get though is the whole “guardrail” thing on live-gens. There is no system that is 100% preventable from someone getting it to say problematic stuff.

If Anthropic and OpenAI can’t screw it down all the way, how can some game company do it? In practice, this’ll mean that basically no game will come with a live service AI. This is like tying people saying stuff in voice chat to the company running the multiplayer servers.

Well-intentioned idea, but not gonna actually work.

Assuming you mean ungoogled chromium, as of now, that is currently unknown.

Looks like they are just gonna stall as much as they reasonably can on it. They are a small team, after all, so it wouldn’t be impossible to expect them to eventually give up on patching it due to the sheer amount of work it might take.

Promise to phase out fossil fuels removed from a non-binding draft agreement.

Clearly, climate change was actually gonna be solved if they left it in. Whole thing is a giant waste of time like Paris and Copenhagen and everything else before.

In terms of comparing to the rest of society?

Yeah. You are a big loser.

But that’s fine. Fuck society, do what makes you personally happy. Life’s hard out there and comparing yourself all the time is only gonna make being happy that much harder.

“Comparison is the thief of joy”, a wise man once said.

Elon Musk finally learns the real truth that no one really wants to say: There is no such thing as free speech in the United States.

If saying an opinion gets you fired from your job, or gets advertisers pulled from your site: guess what, that opinion might as well be banned from being posted.

Being held at virtual gunpoint from corporations is no different from being held at actual gunpoint from governments. This is why right-wingers complain about bannings, because, well, they have a point. Even left-wingers get hit with this too, as certain Palestine supporters that aren’t careful enough with their wording are finding out.

I’d rather at least have the government say “To promote social cohesion and understanding, saying X opinion about Y groups of people, and stating Z false information will no longer be allowed”. Don’t get me wrong, that’s still invasive as hell and a horrifying precedent to set, but having to walk on eggshells for fear of virtual lynch mobs that can pop up at will and say “He said X he said X fire him and uproot his life or we will drag you through the mud and make you lose precious consumer money!!!” with little rhyme or reason, never stopping until their existence in society is ruined is not something that a society should support either.

That is simply vigilante justice via keyboard instead of handgun.

You can’t sell EV’s because:

1: too expensive to buy new 2: if you live anywhere that’s not a big city, or you have a garage, there is basically no electric chargers for you.

The city I live in (~30k people) has 6 chargers total. None of them are superchargers. Wait times are already a sticking point in the best case, nevermind what the wait times would be if everyone where I’m at had an electric car tomorrow. The whole downtown would maybe gridlock just because of people waiting.

For comparison, there are probably 2-300 gas pumps around the city. 5 gas stations within 5 minutes of where I am, all with at least 8 pumps, all well used. People are not going to get EV’s unless there is an infrastructure that is equivalent to gas around where they live.

And that infrastructure is not gonna be fun to get going.

The average person living in the city can’t really use them with street parking, can’t always guarantee a spot after all, and installing a personal one for yourself all but requires a personal garage, which locks out the people who live in poorer housing.

Lots of people in my city and I suspect many others live in trailer parks with low/fixed incomes, having just a simple driveway. Where are they gonna get the thousand or two to install a Level 2 charging station? My mom and dad certainly don’t have the money.

Expecting the EV companies to make the infrastructure with the money they get just from selling EV’s is gonna turn into one gigantic chicken-and-egg problem. The government is going to have to do it, and anyone who’s not living along an interstate can see just how much benefit they are personally getting from it so far… (hint: none)

Ah yes, the 'ol reliable. Blame MAGA.

Go on ahead, make the acronym completely pointless by blaming as many things as you can on it. Then it can join “Groomer”, “Misinformation” and “ACAB” as part of the way, way too long list of things that have been co-opted and hollowed out for political grandstanding. Just wonderful.

5. Make sure to call out Reddit and pretend they are a worthless ship on the edge of sinking any time you reasonably can, despite the fact that Reddit is not even close to doing so (and also conveniently ignore that 99% of Lemmy’s users are people who were once or still are Redditors)
6. If you are a conservative and dare to speak out your opinion on a political issue, prepare to be downvoted with the wrath of a thousand (brown dwarf) suns.

Porn has done it for dozens of years at this point, and it has just become not only an expectation, but just a thing that gets picked up.

I myself can’t get into any of those shorts style of content. 90% has some trash pop music in the background, which I really dislike. But, yeah, it’s a thing now. Thanks TikTok (and Vine before them, can’t completely let the memories of Vine die off)

May I suggest some long-form content to get you to not hit the recommended so much, like perhaps this documentary on Nortel? (watched both 90-minute videos without even thinking about stopping, despite never having heard of Nortel before they came out)

Because most people have their own idea of what is morally right in the world, and they want to cling onto that regardless of what other perspectives may exist. Both sides do this.

Also, in some cases, speaking the truth about something leads to them losing their jobs or livelihoods.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

There is no possible universe where this LLM AI technology was not going to be turned into a money-making venture.

If it wasn’t OpenAI, it would have been Google doing it, or maybe some other startup. This kind of tech has too much potential and wow-ing ability to just stay in a research lab forever and ever.

Honestly, having OpenAI under Microsoft was probably the best deal we can get on the matter. At least they had the mission of not going full throttle from the jump. Microsoft as of late also isn’t really a meddler in business practices as the other giants. Maybe that changes now that OpenAI has schism-ed itself out of relevance, but considering the other ways this could have gone, we should be happy that the AI boom we have now is the reality we live in.

And by the way, the whole “They are hiding AGI” thing is just a complete lie. The way LLM’s tun now, there is simply no way they can ever become AGI, and I doubt they’ve somehow created a brand new type of AI system in less than a year.

No duh, because not a single country has made any real attempt to lower their citizens’ emissions.

It will take sacrifice from all of us to stop warming.

Forget 1.5°C, honestly, forget 2°C as well, keeping it under 3°C is likely the best that we can hope for right now. You’re needing to throw out our gas-based car infrastructure, reduce our reliance on jets as much as possible, lower not just meat consumption but also almonds/alfalfa/etc., and that is just to get started.

Really, I don’t see the average voter letting that happen. What’s going to happen is eventually, sometime 30-40 years from now, a heat wave is gonna thrash the Middle East, consistent 130°F days for a solid month, 100,000 people dead, and the very next year planes will be in the air, making clouds to block the sun.

We are not ready to give up the things that the developed world will have to give up to truly back away from this coming apocalypse.

As long as men are going to be the ones having to do the grunt work, having to be the one to bring in the money and do the dangerous jobs, this will never change.

Unfortunately, most people don’t want that to change.

Because someone decided it was such a funny idea to use these places to launch missiles at their enemies.

Fucking godawful people Hamas are, ruining the lives of 2 million people and assuring untold suffering for probably generations. The sooner those fucks are gone, the better.

Lemmy didn’t reach critical mass. The honeymoon period is over, and now people like you are realizing how barren it really is, especially if you are not a techie.

The only reversal is if Reddit does something bad again to convince people to leave and give this place another shot in the arm. Although, seeing how Musk is all but sawing off Twitter’s arms and legs and people aren’t moving despite Bluesky/Threads being around… well… that’s not a good sign for places like this.

You should try to fight the tsunami as best you can, but… people always go where the other people already are. Any website that people go for to see user-generated content has to deal with this spiraling problem.

I don’t have any trust whatsoever for any company, or the government, to be the decider of what counts as “mis/disinformation”.

Sometimes there are easy layups, like “the Holocaust did not happen” and “Vaccines have 5G chips inside them” which are obviously just wrong and I think most of us would agree not to have…

But what about “The Holocaust was overblown and the jews should stop whining about it”? I and probably 99% of people would say that’s a stupid opinion, but is that “misinformation”? Should a company be allowed to ban you for saying it?

How about things like the 13/52 statistic? Should that be removed? What about “42% of all transgenders commit suicide”? That’s used to attack that group a lot, should that be banned as well?

And, to be honest with you, the Democratic Party is absolutely obsessed with using clinical terms like those mentioned to stifle all discussion and act like they are the only voice on the issue you’re allowed to believe. Republicans freak out about this for good reason.

It’s always the Democratic side that gets conservative opinions that they think are bad (whether lies or otherwise), boot them off the platform, and then decide to trample all over their new platforms and get them killed off too. It’s never just “pRiVaTe CoMpAnY tHeY cAn dO WhAt ThEy WaNt MaKe YoUr oWn WeBsiTE”, it’s “you are not allowed to have a place to speak this idea that I think is bad for society anywhere on the internet”. I really, really do not want to embolden that sect more than they already are.